It was my first 16hp concert and I was very surprised to find them as intense as they were. I had listened to Secret South for a few weeks and to Low Estate for some days. Even though I read a lot about their great live performance and the strange behaviour of DEE, no words can describe it, you really have to see it. (My friend said: DEE is dancing with his chair). I was entirely unprepared for DEE's madness, his pleading, the torment of his "Zerrissenheit", swaying between anger, rebellion, and faith. At times he seemed to be the poor working man cheated by fate, at other times the stout believer reminding us that amidst all the darkness there is the Lord above that helps us all. When they returned to the stage for the second time to play "For Heaven's Sake", the audience was thrilled. It could have gone on for hours. The mixture of pale violet lights, the golden spots, back to fauve, indirect lights, a roaring sound carpet, the faint echoes of the violin in the background and DEE's face contorted with the intensity of the songs -- it was amazing.

The entire gig took place in the Club Room of the Rote Fabrik. We arrived late; The Czars had just finished playing when we bought our tickets. The audience of about 300 was calm when we came in, after each song, however, the applause grew in intensity and towards the end the audience loosened up, swayed with the music, nodded along with the bass and those that knew the words sung along, their voices drowned by the noise.

By Alex.